Dr. Elizabeth Gooch, an economist in NPS' Defense Resources Management Institute, recognized the wealth of information available in the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT), a massive project to catalog the world's news and understand its connections. Partnering with interns from the computer science program at nearby California State University, Monterey Bay, Gooch set out to tap into this resource to examine how nation-state media use their news outlets to achieve foreign policy objectives.